President Duterte on Friday raised the possibility that the recent killings of three teenage boys were carried out to sabotage the police.

“These are deliberate,” Mr. Duterte said of the killings in a speech at the 17th founding anniversary of Digos, Davao del Sur. The police would shoot people, but would not make the effort to wrap up their victims, he added.

“That is not the job of the police … Someone is sabotaging them,” the President said, adding that he does not tolerate unlawful killings.